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Nomie
AI wellness app that turns doomscrolling into self‑care
361 followers
AI wellness app that turns doomscrolling into self‑care
361 followers
We’re building an AI wellness app that transforms doomscrolling into intentional self-care. Nomie is for people who feel overwhelmed, stressed, or mentally drained by constant screen time. Instead of asking users to disconnect, it redirects scrolling habits into guided resets, breathing exercises, journaling, and emotional support. We solve the problem of compulsive digital consumption by turning screen time into a tool for calm, focus, and regulation.
Hello Nomie, this app is super relaxed and cute!
However When I was trying to enter and downloaded this app in IPad, I cannot scroll down to start.
If you guys fix this problem, it will be way more better for users to use in IPad as well!
Great and healing app!
Lancepilot
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Nomie
@curiouskitty Thanks for the question! The core difference is state-first vs. thought-first.
Most apps like Calm or Headspace assume you are already calm enough to sit through a meditation. Chatbots like Wysa or Woebot assume you can think your way through what you are feeling.
But when someone is highly activated — anxious, spiraling, overwhelmed — you usually can’t do either. In that moment, you are not trying to optimize your mindset, you prob just want to not feel terrible.
Nomie starts from that place. Instead of asking you to think or reflect, it gives you small, immediate ways to shift your state through our Bloomscroll feed: breathing, haptic grounding, doodling, and simple interactive cards that feel closer to scrolling than meditating. It meets you where you are, not where you should be.
And we believe that’s where we differentiate: in the first 30–60 seconds when someone is too dysregulated to engage with traditional mindfulness or CBT-style tools. From there, we expand with Nomie, a wellness companion you can talk to, and more intentional journaling when you are ready for it :)
I've used Headspace and know that they have a few "panic mode" sessions. Do you think they're missing potential with that? Or that having a guided meditation is just the wrong format?
@ellie_nomie
Nomie
@joshgrant Great question. I don’t think it’s the wrong format, it just assumes you are rational enough in that moment enough to follow through and get yourself out of the spiral. In those really activated moments, even a short guided meditation can feel like too much. You are not trying to “do it right,” you just want to feel a little better. There’s also a bit of pressure when a product is positioned as the thing that’s supposed to “get you out” of a panic moment.
We start with very low effort, almost instinctive interactions that help you reset first. Once you are a bit more grounded, longer-form tools like meditation can actually work much better.
Nomie is positioned more as something you can return to over time, a feel-good, supportive presence, rather than something you only reach for in a crisis.
The doomscrolling-to-self-care flip is a smart reframe. The hard part is the habit loop - people pick up the phone for dopamine, not intention. Does Nomie intercept at the lock screen / notification level or does it only activate once you are already in the app?
Nomie
@mykola_kondratiuk thanks for your question! That’s the hard part, the habit loop starts before intention.
Right now Nomie mostly activates once you are in the app. We use light nudges, but we are not trying to aggressively intercept or track behavior. That can feel invasive and just add more pressure.
Our approach is less about fighting the habit and more about meeting yourself with a bit more kindness in that moment. You pick up your phone for a reason. Nomie just gently shifts that experience so it actually helps you feel a little better.
Over time the shift is simple. Same impulse, but a softer, more supportive place to land :)
Makes sense. The in-app trigger puts the burden on the user having enough momentum to open the app first. That's the core tension with habit apps - they're most needed when you least feel like engaging with them.
Lancepilot
@mykola_kondratiuk Thank you so much, You got it right!
Glad it resonates! Good luck with the launch.
Good Luck! Meeting people where they already are (on their phone, scrolling) and turning that into something useful is a much easier sell. As someone who runs a startup I catch myself doomscrolling at midnight way too often. How does Nomie actually intercept the scrolling moment? Is it a notification, a widget, or does it detect when you've been on your phone too long?
Nomie
@ben_gend That’s exactly the moment we care about, the late night “why am I still scrolling” spiral. Right now we do not interrupt or track you. That tends to feel invasive and just adds more noise. Instead, we focus on being something you can easily reach for in that moment.
Once you open Nomie, you can shift your state right away with breathing, grounding, and small glimmers on the Bloomscroll feed. You are still scrolling, which makes it easier to stick with it, just with content that is better for your brain. Over time the behavior is simple. You catch yourself doomscrolling and Nomie becomes the next tap.
We are exploring smarter ways to show up at the right moment, but we do not want to become another app fighting for your attention :)
Lancepilot
@ben_gend I think The upcoming unity gamifying feature would be helping in this! @ellie_nomie
Congrats on the launch! Love the mission of turning doomscrolling into mindful resets. I’ve checked out Nomie and found some small delays in the 'reset' features and the touch feedback
I'd love to help you fix these and make the app perfectly smooth.
Nomie
@sergioding noted! We will improve the interactions. If you try on the iOS app, the experience would be a lot smoother
Lancepilot
@sergioding Thank you so much Sergio
Hi, I love your product but I wanted to know is it backed by research on human behaviour? If yes, can you share? As many apps come along the line of mental wellbeing but they lack the support of primary data. Will be great to know.
Nomie
@dr_dee Great question, and something we care a lot about! Nomie is grounded in established frameworks like nervous system regulation, CBT-style reflection, and motivational interviewing. We’re not claiming clinical validation, but we’re building on top of well-supported approaches.
We also continuously evaluate and improve the system using real conversations and therapeutic benchmarks. My cofounder wrote a deeper dive on how our self-evolving agent works if that piques your interest:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7442635124967415808/?originTrackingId=EoCCkYQParP6AyIQ5iY5Ng%3D%3D